Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double spending and replace by fee

2015-04-21 Thread Peter Todd
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 11:28:08PM -0700, Adrian Macneil wrote: Fwiw, Coinbase relies on the current first-seen mempool behaviour. Wide adoption of RBF (without a suitable replacement available) would make it extremely difficult to pitch bitcoin as a viable alternative to credit cards

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double spending and replace by fee

2015-04-09 Thread Adrian Macneil
Fwiw, Coinbase relies on the current first-seen mempool behaviour. Wide adoption of RBF (without a suitable replacement available) would make it extremely difficult to pitch bitcoin as a viable alternative to credit cards payments to large merchants. Adrian On Mar 28, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Peter

[Bitcoin-development] Double spending and replace by fee

2015-03-28 Thread Mike Hearn
I've written a couple of blog posts on replace by fee and double spending mitigations. They sum up the last few years (!) worth of discussions on this list and elsewhere, from my own perspective. I make no claim to be comprehensive or unbiased but I keep being asked about these topics so figured

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Double spending and replace by fee

2015-03-28 Thread Peter Todd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Would you so us all a favor and make a list of companies *actually* relying on first-seen mempool behaviour. Because I've been having a hard time actually finding anyone who does who hasn't given up on it. Not very useful to talk about attacks